How to Get Through The Tough Times The Old Style Way.

maryb

I can totally understand being reduced to a state of savagery by inconsiderate neighbours and the tapping on the radiator pipes would enrage anyone.

But is there nothing that can be done about the soundproofing? After all people must be able to use their homes within reason (not including loud music etc when people are trying to sleep) and it sounds like just coming in at late/early hours causes a lot of the noise that troubles you.

gillst_2

Evening everyone, I have another question that hopefully someone can help me out with. I am sprouting some chickpeas and the shoots are just starting to grow. How long should the shoots be before they can be eaten and also, do I cut the shoots off and eat just the shoots or do I eat the chick pea part as well. I know this probably sounds completely stupid to most of you, but I have never done anything like this, just a bit of cress now and again! Thanks again for all your help - what would I do without you all?

EstherH

Thanks iris. Will make life easier. I do love the recipe and my slow cooker.

charlies-aunt

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Having a bit of a week, go to bed feeling whacked and wake up still feeling exhausted. Weeks like this really get me feeling glum - I have so much that I want to do - gardening, craftwork, baking, etc but just too tired. Still under investigation as blood tests not right and having a RA flare puts the tin hat on it . . . . just have to grin and keep [STRIKE]jogging[/STRIKE] plodding on

Like Grey Queen - I'll had a week of difficult callers on the call centre where I work . . . f'rinstance

Caller " I've just driven my car into a pothole and bent the wheel"
ME: "I'm sorry to hear you have had an accident, you need to call the Highways Department at the Council regarding this"
Caller "Well - aren't you paying for it"
ME "I'm sorry but we are a housing association, we don't have responsibility for roads"
Caller " I live in one of your houses though"
ME "We are not responsible for the highways, you need to ring the Highways Department"
Caller " You *&%$ing b!tch, you're just trying to fob me off - what's your *&^%$ing name 'cos I'm going to *&^%$ing report you.

:huh: :huh: I love my job (not) :huh: :huh:

Did call into my local approved foods-type store today . . . bought four large bags of Walkers Sensations Crisps (a couple of weeks out of date) - four bags for £1 Chap running the shop said that they are having a job shifting them as customers think they are too cheap to be any good!........as cheap is my middle name :rotfl::rotfl: I bought 4 and very nice they are too

Hoping to see the yellow ball in the sky this weekend - natural Prozac

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grandma247

I hope they find out what is wrong soon charlies aunt. It is horrible when you feel so bad and don't know why.

Your caller sounds very much like some of the twits here.

jackieglasgow

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GreyQueen

charlies-aunt, thank you so much your call-centre anecdote about being responsible for a pot hole because the driver rented his home from your association.......:rotfl:I was wondering if the general public were uniquely weird in my part of the forest but it seems to be all over. Let's grin together. Hope you soon feel better.

Well, it's ridiculous o'clock and I am online because the alternative is to lie awake in my bed a few meters away and listen to I.B. manufacture tapping noises on his walls/ woodwork/ bedstead. If I get up, he will stop. If I go back to bed, he will re-start. It's a lose-lose situation. On the plus side, he didn't come home until about 4 am so I have had about 5 hours sleep. That's the most I have had for the best part of a year; there have been plenty of nights when I have had none at all. My mental health is not too good at the moment, with exhaustion and stress leaving me tearful and my own personal "BD" hovering on the scene. Been there before, not wanting to go there again. Physically, I have developed high bloodpressure after always having had below-normal readings, have started toothgrinding to the point of ruining a tooth, have had to be treated with stress-excema and have nearly collapsed several times at work. Got IBS and a tension headache which has lasted for several months.:(

Not meaning to have a one-woman pity party here as I'm very aware that so many of us, and our loved ones, are having dreadful times, so much worse than my little problems.

westcoastscot I appreciate your compassion for your learning disabled client group and that your interpretation that I.B. may be similarly afflicted has hit a "hot button" and caused you concern. It does you nothing but credit, IMO. I meet a fair few people with learning disability, Asperger's, autism etc in the course of my work and am pretty good at recognising the traits. I have to say, IMO, in my limited f-2-f contacts with him, these are not his problems. But of course, I am not his GP and cannot know for sure.

Reading the last couple of pages has made me realise that my using this thread as a safety valve to let off steam about I.B was not being considerate of your respective comfort zones. So, the rule from now on is..........I shall not mention I.B. or matters related to I.B.

Of course, this may mean I have nothing to "It's Tough..." about and may not post again on this particular thread (I play in a few other places on the OS Board anyway) but I shall keep reading as I love to know how everyone is rising to their challenges with such wit, style and humour. ((Hugs to all))

Love and peas, GQ x

ceridwen

GreyQueen

My own take - for what its worth - is that "DO keep posting on how things are going re Idiot Boy". I think most of us do sympathise with your situation - I certainly do..

Whatever anyone says/does/etc - there will always be people with a different viewpoint and there will always be a few who think one shouldnt even have said it. Thats life and sometimes people do respond to a situation because of a "hot button" of their own - rather than because of the situation per se iyswim.

I do feel very concerned personally at the situation you are in and the effect its having - so do hope you will feel okay about posting on this still.

Anyway - for now - and with the situation is still unresolved - have you thought about going to Plan B - eg getting a doctors letter for the Council about the effect I.B. is having on your health (which includes stating what health problems you have anyway - to make it plain that I.B.-created problems are coming on top of health problems of your own iyswim) and going to a councillor/your M.P. if need be to request a transfer?

I think this may be the best way forward for you at this juncture - even though...why the heck should YOU move because HE is the problem?

Pitlanepiglet

rachbc wrote: »

WCS you aren't the only one - I haven't commented on any 'IB' posts previously for that specific reason but preferred to hold my peace to avoid a 'though' thread going awry again - so shall say no more other than to reassure you you aren't a lone voice

I feel like this too, although I have huge sympathy for those involved.

westcoastscot

I totally empathise Greyqueen with your situation, and i'm truely sorry it is causing you so much distress. I hope the situation is resolved for both you and the young man concerned as soon as possible.
WCS